KMV offers research-based education for the students
KMV provides seed money to faculty members and students for facilitating high level research
Jalandhar, December 22, 2022: Kanya Maha Vidyalaya (Autonomous) is always at fore front to strengthen research and innovation activities in the college by motivating teachers and students. For this purpose in mind, KMV has a research policy to promote research related activities among faculty and students. Curriculum of various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes has been upgraded to introduce research based projects and internships.
To promote research based education all the members of faculty along with teams of students, who are not getting funding from external sources, can avail seed money grant for research projects. The shortlisted applicants are asked to make presentations in front of research committee constituting one external expert. Selected Principal Investigators and their team with student members submit progress report at the end of each semester and it is evaluated by the same committee constituting one external expert. Many students working on these projects have also presented their research work in various National conferences and seminars. Apart from this, each year two member of the faculty, under the senior and junior categories, are given “Award of Excellence in Research” of Rs. 10000, and moreover, award of Rs. 2000 is also given to UG and PG students, who excel in research. A research forum is also organised regularly, where each department, especially post graduate departments, showcase their respective research & the investigators, along with their students working under seed money grant, present their ideas, findings and experiences. Research forum also organise invited expert talks periodically on research methodology, IPRs and research orientation for the faculty members.
Principal Prof. Atima Sharma Dwivedi inspired the teachers to involve students in advance research to hone their skills. She averred that the involvement of faculty in research activities will result in the enhancement of their knowledge and will also update them regarding their subject which will be of great benefit to the students & these noble initiatives of KMV is bound to elicit excellent results. She lauded the efforts of Research Cell of KMV for these brilliant initiatives.